Board of Trustees

Since 1980, Mr. Brehm has been a director of SRA, International, a company that serves government clients in the field of information technology, and served as Chairman of the Board from 1980-2003. Mr. Brehm helped found the company in 1978. He now serves SRA on a part-time basis. Following twelve years in advanced systems engineering in the aerospace industry, in 1964, Mr. Brehm joined the staff of the Secretary of Defense. In 1968, President Johnson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Army. He was reappointed by President Nixon in 1969 and served until December 1970, at which time he returned to industry. In 1973, Mr. Brehm returned to public service when President Nixon appointed him to be Assistant Defense Secretary, a position he held to the conclusion of the Ford administration.

Following his government service, Mr. Brehm was appointed Executive Vice President and Director of Computer Network Corporation in Washington DC. During this time, as a DOD consultant, Mr. Brehm also directed policy-level evaluations of the series of DOD mobilization and crisis-management exercises that began with NIFTY NUGGET in 1978. In 1981-82, Mr. Brehm led a team assigned by the Chairman, JCS, to develop a plan for reforming the JCS organization, process, and incentives for Joint service. The team's recommendations included, among other things, the creation of a Joint Specialty for officers serving in joint assignments, the assignment of the Joint Staff to the chairman, and the creation of the position of Vice Chairman, JCS. All of these initiatives were adopted by the Congress in the JCS reform legislation of 1986 known as Goldwater-Nichols.